Hello. This is a programme from the BBC Learning English Archive. It was first broadcast广播 in April 2008 on the BBC Learning English website. We hope you enjoy it. Hello. This is 6 Minute English. I'm Jackie Dalton. The focus焦点 of today's programme is life stories told in a rather宁可 unusual way. I'm joined by Callum Robertson who helped explain some of the language that comes up today. Hello, Callum. Hi, Jackie. And as ever, I'm going to start with a question for you.
The question is, who said 'happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know'? Was it William Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, or Ernest, Hemingway? It doesn't sound like Shakespeare. I don't think it's witty机智的 or funny enough to be Oscar Wilde, so I would guess it the writer Ernest Hemingway. That's right. It's the American writer Ernest Hemingway. And we're going to be talking about him today because in the 1920s he bet打赌 ten dollars that he could write a complete story in just six words.
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